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UNITED STATES PATENT Ormea JOHN F. SCHNARRENBERGER, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES E. FUNK, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,900, dated June 14,1892.

Application filed November l2, 1891. Serial N- 4111678 (N0 IUOCL) T0a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SCHNARREN- BERGER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cash-Registers,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cash registers which indicate to the purchaserthe amount to paid at each purchase or the total of several purchases atone time; and it consists in the construction and combination of partsof the same, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical transverse sectionon line a b, Fig. 5, with parts of the interiorbroken away to showoperative mechanism of the inside of end A, F1g.5.- Fig. 2 is a portionof the section of the zo top of Fig. l to show part of operative partsin dilferent position. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line cCZ, Fig. 5, with parts of the interior broken away to show operativemechanism of the inside of end B, Fig. 5. Fig. z5 4 is a portion ofthesection of the top of Fig. 3, showing operative parts in changedposition from that shownin Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a vertical longitudinalsectionon line @fof Figs. l and 3; Fig. 6, money and card drawer; Fig.7, carddrawer; Figs. 8, 9, and l0, respectively, side and end elevationand plan of one of the cardstops; Fig. 11, detached perspective view ofone end of the card-slide. Figs. l2 and 13 show two forms of Iigures forcards.

3 5 Similar letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the severalviews.

A and B are the ends and C and D, respectively, the front and back ofthe cabinet, which contains all the operative mechanism.

E is an upper drawer for receiving the cards, and F the lower drawer,from which the cards are drawn for indicating the purchases. Plan viewsof both drawers are shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

Fig. 5 shows drawer F almost as wide and drawer E much less in widththan the inside length of the cabinet. At the sides, inside,

near the rear of drawer F, are pivoted levers G and H, and each of theselevers has its lower arms, respectively, g and h longer than its upperarms, respectively, g and h', so

that the lower arms will preponderate in weight and hold the leverslower arms against stop-pins 'L' or t. IVith this construction levers Gand II are carried in and out with the 5 5 movement of drawer F.

In Figs. S, S), and l0 are shown different. views of one of thecard-stops, end views ot which are shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4, andtheir relative parts will now be explained. 6o The cabinet proper issurmounted by a top, which is composed of solid endsI and Il and a topJ, which is perforated with as many slots j as there are different kindsof cards. Underneath top J and between ends I and 6r; I and above thetop .I o1" the cabinet proper are four strips of glass Z.; Zt and Z Z,which are secured in place and run lengthwise of the cabinet, as plainlyshown. Glass strips k and Zt" ll up the entire space between 7o sides Iand I and tops .I and J and serve as windows and to exclude dust fromthe working mechanism. Glass strips Z and Z are separated at theircenter ot` width by a slot, which extends their entire length. Glassstrips Z and Z are separated from glass Zo by a space m, which is thedownward continuation of slotsj. I'n Fig. 5 is shown the divisions fn,which form the ends of slots formed out ol' space m. Secured to thesides I and I are 8o hangers 0, to which are pivoted the ends ot' thecard-stops. The card-stops consist of a strip of metal K, which has anearly horizon tal position, and its rear edge is bent up at a rightangle, forming an L-shaped strip in S5 cross-section. The ends of thisstrip are secured to blocks o', which have eyes at the top to receivethe pivot-pins of hangers o. The horizontal part K of the stop isprovided with projections p, which have spaces 19 be- 9o tween them.IVhen the upper stop is hung in place, the projections p pass throughinto the space m between glass strips Z Z. The lower stop is hung onpivots similar to the upper stop, and its horizontal strip Zc, whenacting as a stop, passes under lower glass strip Z and into space m.

It will be understood that the horizontal strips K or K of either upperor lower stops can either be provided with spaces jp to stradroo dle thedivisions 7i in space m or be made with a straight edge, with divisionsn cut away to admit the stop strip. noticed that both the upper andlower stops are so hungout of the vertical that their tendency is toswing in toward glass k in the closed position shown in Figs. l andUnder the glass strips which form space m the top J of the eabinetisslotted at q throughout its length between the insides ot sides l andl', and just under this slot qand through out its length is a curvedplate M (detail Fig. ll) which has ribs r, which register with divisions n of space m, the ribs forming slideways s, and at the bottom otthese slideways are the compartments t of the upper drawer E, whichcompartments also register with the slideways s.

Pivoted to the inside of the ends A and B ot the cabinet are levers Nand N, whose lower ends project downward below the level of the top endsof levers G and .H of the lower drawer F, and the upper ends of levers Nand N are connected to the short arm u and u of elbow-levers O and O byrods c and 'u'. The long arm of elbow-lever O passes up through slot qof cabinet-top J', and the upper end w of the lever contacts with therear side of upper stopblock o', Figs. l and 2, while lever O at theopposite end of the cabinet passes up through slot q and its upper end.00 contacts with the rear of lower stopblock o. Near the center oflength of the long arm ot elbow-lever O, Figs. 3 and Ll, is pivoted arod,which connects the lever to the lever of a bell P.

At the extreme top of the cabinet are upward projections Q, upon whichare the figures to indicate the slot into which any particular cardhaving the saine figure is placed.

For convenience the lower drawer has the card-apartments marked to suitthe denomination of the cards contained in them, as shown in Fig. 6. Theupper drawer may also be marked in the same manner, it necessary. Thecards may be marked with a single set of `figures or with a double setof the same denomination arranged in the manner shown in Fig. 13, inwhich case either end of the card can be inserted in the slot j. Theglass strips k 7a and Z l being transparent, the cards can be seenresting upon both the upper and lower stops before they are dropped intothe upper drawer of the cabinet.

In explaining the operation of this register it must be understood thatthe cards at the beginning are all in the compartments of the lowerdrawer; also, the money for making change is in the square compartment-sR of the same drawer, and the amount of this money is charged to theregister. When a purchase has been made, the lower drawerisrst pulledout and the amount of the purchasein money deposited in one of thecompartments R. Should the amount ot the purchase be, say, twentyiivecents, a 25 card is withdrawn from the drawer and dropped into slot 25at the top of the cabinet, where the card first lodges upon one of theprojections p of the upper lt will be stop and can be plainly seenthrough the glass sides of the top of the cabinet from either the frontor rear. After the card has been inserted in the slot the drawer ispushed into the closed position shown in solid lilies, Figs. l and 3. ltwill be noticed that lever G, which is pivoted to the drawer and shownin Figs. l and 5, has its lower arm g resting upon a stop fr', whichprevents the lever from turning farther in the direction of the stop.\Vhen lower drawer F was pulled out, thetop arm g of lever G contactedwith the lower end of the long arm of lever N, which caused lever G toturn on its pivot, the upper arm downward, and thelowerarm gliftin gtrom pin t', which permits lever G to pass thelowerend of lever N whilelever G is being carried outward by opening drawer F; but after theupper end of lever G has been carried past the lower end of lever N thearm g of lever G,

being` heavier than the upper arm g', causes' the lower arm to drop backtothe stop-pin fz', and when the drawer is pushed in the upper arm g ot'lever Gcontacts with the lower arm of lever N, causing it to vibrateupward on its pivotal center to the dotted lines, which action, throughthe medium of rod e, causes the long` arm of lever O to vibrate fromlett to right in Fig. l, and the top end w of this arln to swing theupper stop out of space m, Fig. 2, and permit the card to drop and lodgeagainst the lower stop, as shown by card l0 in Figs. 2 and 5, where itremains in plain view through the glass until more money is paid for apurchase and must be registered.

The registering takes place as follows: Then the drawer is pulled out,the mechanism shown by Figs. 3 and 4 is operated. In Figs. 3 and 5 leverH is shown pivoted to the side of drawer F at the rear. Lever ll alsohas a long arm, which rests upon a stop-pin but this lever is sodisposed that it vibrates in an opposite direction to that of lever G atthe opposite side of the drawer and hercinbefore described. When drawerFis pushedin, its top end h is pushed downward,liftingthc long arm 71,from stop-pin fl; but when the drawer is pulled out stop-pin t" holdstop end 7L in position, so that when it contacts with the long arm oflever N this lever is thrown up to the dotted lines, causing short armu', through rod e', to descend, and operating the top end x of lever Ofrom right to leftin Fig. 3, which end a: contacts with the lower stopand swings it outward from glass 7c, Fig. 4, when the card resting uponthe stop, (card 10,) Fig. 5, falls down through slot q in top J, thencedown one of the slides s and into its designated compartment in upperdrawer E, as shown by card 50 in Fig. 5. During the time the mechanismshown in Figs. 3 and a is opera-ted the movement of lever O to drop thecard from the lower stop causes the bell P to sound an alarm by itslever being connected to lever O, as shown. The method of operation, inshort7 is by pull ICO ITO

ing out lower drawer F a card is deposited inl upper drawer E, and byclosing the lower drawer a card is dropped from the top to tho lowerstop, where it remains in plain view to indicate the amount of the lastpurchase. At the close of business the sum of money in the lower drawerless the amount deposited in the drawer for change at the beginningshould exactly equal the sum of the numbers on the tickets which havebeen deposited in the upper drawer.

I claim as my invention-- l. In a cash-register, the combination, with acabinet provided with a slot leading into the top, of two stops in theslot, a drawer within the cabinet, and means for connecting the stopswith the drawer, whereby the movement of the drawer in one directionoperates one of the stops and the movement of it in the oppositedirection operates the other stop, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cash-register, the combination, with a cabinet provided with aslot leading from the top, of two stops in the slot, a drawer in thecabinet, and two systems of rods and levers, one of which is connectedwith one of the stops and is operated by pulling out the drawer and theother one is operated by pushing in the drawer, substantially as setforth.

3. In a cash-register, the combination,with a cabinet provided with aslot leading from its top, of two stops in said slot, a drawer in thecabinet, one side of which drawer is provided with a forwardly-swinginglever and the other side is provided with a rearwardlyswinging lever,and two systems of rods and levers, one of which is connected with oneof the stops and is operated by the lever on one side of the drawer andthe other system is connected with the other stop and is operated by thelever on the other side of the drawer, substantially as set forth.

4. In a cash-register, the eombinatiomwith a cabinet provided with aslot leading from its top, of two stops in the slot and two drawers inthe cabinet divided into compartments, said slot being also divided tocorrespond with the compartments of one of said boxes, the other drawerbeing adapted to receive the cash, and means for removing one of thestops from the slot when one of the drawers is pulled out and forremoving the other stop when the drawer is pushed in, substantially asset forth. 5. In a cash-register, the .combination,with the cabinetproper, of a top mounted thereon comprising slotted top and bottompieces, solid end pieces, and transparent walls between the top andbott-om pieces and the end pieces, two of said walls forming a verticalslot between them, which registers with the slots in the top and bottompieces, one of said walls being provided with a horizontal slot, twostops secured to the end pieces, one of which stops is adapted to passthrough the horizontal slot in one of the walls and the other one isadapted to pass under the bottom of said wall, and means for operatingthe stops, su bstantially as set forth. Y

6. In a cash-register the cabinet of which is provided with a receptacleand a Vertical slotted top communicating therewith, thewalls of whichslot are transparent and one of them is provided with a horizontal slot,two stops pivotally secured to the end pieces, each stop comprising abar and a plate secured to the lower end thereof, said plate projectingat an angle therefrom, one of which plates is adapt ed to pass throughthe horizontal slot and close the vertical slot and the other plate isadapted to pass under the bottom of said wall, and means for operatingthe stops, substantially as set forth.

JOHN F. SCHNARRENBERGER. Witnesses:

F. F. BARNETT, A. ERNEST KNIGHT.

